The melanocortin receptor MCR4 controls fat consumption

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 113, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 85-88

  Samama, Philippe ^a   Rumennik, Leonid ^a   Grippo, Joseph F ^a  

^a HOFFMANN LA ROCHE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary fat; Leptin; Melanocortins

Indexed keywords

ANTIOBESITY AGENT; CYCLOPEPTIDE; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR AGONIST; PARTIAL AGONIST; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FAT INTAKE; FEEDING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIETARY FATS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EATING; ENERGY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4;

CHEN;

EID: 0037447798     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(02)00299-9     Document Type: Article

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